Word: carbonizing
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...decade negotiating. Last week, a scientific panel he'd commissioned gave the president some unwelcome findings: Global warming is, indeed, caused by human activity, and that needs to be urgently addressed. But Bush's economic and ideological thinking does not extend as far as mandatory regulation of carbon-gas emissions, which makes it unlikely that he and the Europeans will find much ground for agreement...
...rejection of mandatory emission cuts as a classically American approach, just as the Bush administration sees Kyoto as a classically European approach of relying heavily on regulation. What the Europeans want to see, however, are moves to redress the fact that the average American consumes a lot more carbon-based energy and therefore contributes a lot more than the average European to the problem of global warming. And that is not going to be addressed by the Bush proposals...
...responses to the question of whether global warming was a real trend, and if it was caused by human activity. Deciding that it was, prolonged negotiations led to the 1997 Kyoto Treaty on Climate, which mandates that by 2012 the industrialized nations will have cut their collective output of carbon gases to 5 percent below 1990 levels. Since then, the signatories to the treaty (including the Clinton administration) have struggled, unsuccessfully, to agree on mechanisms to implement Kyoto. President Bush, however, has rejected the Kyoto Accord as unfair and likely to hurt the U.S. economy...
...Europeans say: The bottom line is that the U.S. is the world's largest polluter and one of the most inefficient energy consumers among the industrialized nations. Whatever compromises are reached on implementing Kyoto must include mandatory cuts in U.S. carbon gas outputs. Short-term economic cost will be rewarded with long-term benefit...
...read that against the administration's energy plan, which advocates substantially increasing outputs of carbon gases, and it's clear that the administration right now plans to exacerbate rather than reduce the problem of global warming. Then, send President Bush to Europe, which is furious with Washington for withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, and it's clear that the scientists' report has put him in a very difficult situation...